Lysiae Orationes cum Fragmentis
Lysiae Orationes cum Fragmentis

Author: Christopher Carey

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2007-09-27

Total Pages: 616

ISBN-13: 019156849X

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One of the canonical Athenian orators, Lysias was much admired in antiquity. This new critical edition seeks to make the whole surviving corpus of Lysias available to the modern reader. It combines a newly edited text of the speeches preserved in the medieval manuscript tradition (based on the most up-to-date evaluation of the transmission) with a comprehensive collection of the fragments preserved indirectly through citation in ancient sources and in papyrus discoveries in the twentieth century. A general introduction in English provides an overview of the transmission of the text in antiquity and the Renaissance. An appendix contains a number of speeches almost certainly not written by Lysias but occasionally attributed to him in modern times.

Lysiae Orationes Cum Fragmentis
Lysiae Orationes Cum Fragmentis

Author: Lysias

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2007-09-27

Total Pages: 614

ISBN-13: 019814072X

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One of the canonical Athenian orators, Lysias was much admired in antiquity. This critical edition aims to make the whole corpus of Lysias available to the modern reader. A general introduction in English provides an overview of the transmission of the text in antiquity and the Renaissance.

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Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1009364952

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The Law of Ancient Athens
The Law of Ancient Athens

Author: David Phillips

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2013-10-14

Total Pages: 559

ISBN-13: 0472035916

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A topic fundamental to understanding the ancient world

Studies on ›P. Oxy.‹ XXXI 2537
Studies on ›P. Oxy.‹ XXXI 2537

Author: Linda Rocchi

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-11-09

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 311070370X

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Among the very few papyri devoted to the work of the Attic orator Lysias, one of the most interesting is certainly P. Oxy. XXXI 2537. Dated palaeographically to the late 2nd-early 3rd century CE, it contains the summaries of 22 Lysianic speeches, 18 of which were formerly unknown or known just by the title and brief quotations in lexicographers. And yet, despite the undeniable richness of this collection, the papyrus has generally received little attention from modern scholarship, and no complete survey of its many aspects of significance has been yet produced. This work aims to fill this gap: along with a new transcription and critical edition based on autopsy of the papyrus, this book provides a translation and the first exhaustive commentary of the text. Through careful textual and juridical analysis, the author examines both the relationship between summaries and speeches, with a discussion of the significant legal features of each procedure, and the overall importance of this papyrus for the history of the corpus of Lysias. The book will thus be of interest for papyrologists, legal historians, students of Attic oratory, and researchers in the field of the history of the material culture of Graeco-Roman Egypt alike.

Commentary on Demosthenes Against Leptines
Commentary on Demosthenes Against Leptines

Author: Christos Kremmydas

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-01-19

Total Pages: 503

ISBN-13: 0199578133

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Against Leptines is one of the most important speeches delivered by Demosthenes. It argues against the abolishment of all honorific exemptions (ateleiai) from festival liturgies in the city of Athens. Kremmydas' commentary features an extensive introduction, Greek text, and a facing English translation.

Building Modality with Syntax
Building Modality with Syntax

Author: Camille Denizot

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2023-09-18

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 3110778521

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Despite the intensive research carried out in recent years, modality remains an intriguing and challenging issue in linguistics. This book investigates modality from a syntactic viewpoint and with a bottom-up approach. A strong focus of the book is the interaction between the different linguistic tools that build modality (moods, modal verbs, modal adverbs, etc.), taking both the role of syntactic structure and the compositionality of modal meanings into account. The volume comprises corpus-based studies devoted to several syntactic aspects of modality in Ancient Greek, within different theoretical frameworks. The chapters shed new light on different modal categories (e.g. epistemicity, possibility, counterfactuality, evidentiality, subjectivity) and show how these modal meanings arise from the combination of different linguistic devices in specific syntactic contexts (e.g. combinations of modal elements, types of main and dependent clauses, types of illocutionary acts, etc.). By approaching modality from a different perspective and providing an up-to-date discussion of several aspects of modality, the book makes a significant contribution to current debates.

The Documents in the Attic Orators
The Documents in the Attic Orators

Author: Mirko Canevaro

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2013-07-18

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 0191646245

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In this volume, Mirko Canevaro studies the 'state' documents (laws and decrees) preserved in the public speeches of the Demosthenic corpus. These documents purport to be Athenian statutes and, if authentic, provide invaluable information about Athenian history, law, and institutions. Offering a comprehensive account of the presence of the documents in the corpora of the orators and in the manuscript tradition, this volume summarizes previous scholarship and delineates a new methodology for analyzing the documents. Examining the documents found in Demosthenes' On the Crown, Against Meidias, Against Aristocrates, Against Timocrates, and Apollodorus' Against Neaera, the core of the volume, which includes a chapter by Edward M. Harris, provides a guide for the reliability of the individual documents, and advances new interpretations of important Athenian laws, such as homicide regulations, legislative procedures, laws on theft, seduction, naturalization, and outlawry. Canevaro argues that some of the documents have been inserted into the speeches in an Athenian environment at the beginning of the third century BC and are therefore reliable, while many others are later forgeries. These forgeries are early products of the tradition of historical declamations and progymnasmata, and could be used as evidence of Hellenistic oratory and rhetorical education.

The Greek World 479-323 BC
The Greek World 479-323 BC

Author: Simon Hornblower

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-03-17

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 1136831258

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The Greek World 479-323 BC has been an indispensable guide to classical Greek history since its first publication nearly thirty years ago. Now Simon Hornblower has comprehensively revised and partly rewritten his original text, bringing it up-to-date for yet another generation of readers. In particular, this fourth edition takes full account of recent and detailed scholarship on Greek poleis across the Hellenic world, allowing for further development of the key theme of regional variety across the Mediterranean and beyond. Other extensive changes include a new sub-chapter on Islands, a completely updated bibliography, and revised citation of epigraphic material relating to the fourth-century BC. With valuable coverage of the broader Mediterranean world in which Greek culture flourished, as well as close examination of Athens, Sparta, and the other great city-states of Greece itself, this fourth edition of a classic work is a more essential read than ever before.

Essays in Renaissance Thought and Letters
Essays in Renaissance Thought and Letters

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-07-14

Total Pages: 694

ISBN-13: 9004294651

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Essays in Renaissance Thought and Letters is a volume dedicated to John Monfasani, renowned scholar of Latin and Greek rhetoric and philosophy. These essays range from Antiquity to the Enlightenment, in genre from learned notes to editiones principes, and in discipline from intellectual to socio-economic history. An introduction to Monfasani’s life and works, and a list of his opera open the volume. Contributors include Michael J.B. Allen, Sándor Bene, Concetta Bianca, Robert Black, Christopher Celenza, Brian Copenhaver, John Demetracopoulos, James Hankins, Martin Hinterberger, Thomas Izbicki, David Jacoby, Peter Mack, Lodi Nauta, David Rundle, David Rutherford, Chris Schabel, April Shelford, and Thomas M. Ward.